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You're right. It's just the potential rewards of owning an entire protocol are far too great for companies to resist sadly.
by cameronbrown 7y ago
You're right. It's just the potential rewards of owning an entire protocol are far too great for companies to resist sadly.
- Judgmentality 7y agoI realize protocols and formats are slightly different, but the history of Sony and trying to invent/own formats is really interesting. https://www.fastcompany.com/1290466/sonys-long-list-format-failure-betamax-memorystick-micro https://www.fastcompany.com/1290466/sonys-long-list-format-f...
- vokep 7y agoAre they? What profit would companies have made if they'd privatized TCP and the internet as we know it never was able to take off? A world in which you build an extremely valuable network which benefits everyone, is a world where the profit itself is more valuable, the value of anything is higher.
- cameronbrown 7y agoMaybe protocol was too specific of a word. 'Network' or system? Arguably Facebook is an example of this.
- dillonmckay 7y agoNovell? IPX/SPX, right? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPX/SPX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPX/SPX